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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌

@aorticcyclist.bsky.social

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MTB rider for fitness and fun, Mutt minder, Thoracic Aortic Dissection survivor and Coach driver/Operations Manager, photographer Nikon Z fc, builds model railways and aircraft. Lincoln UK. Resistance is futile!

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers mate

Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 3d

I’m looking forward to it, I drive buses for work and Grandfather drove Routemasters when he worked for London Transport in the good old days, no pressure eh? I will put some pucs up as I get on with it

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 4d

cheers mate, will get some better pics shortly, once I've decided wheels up or down 😀

Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 4d

OK from one extreme to the other, the next #histscalemodels build has been liberated from the stash, I hate to think how long this will take, I will post pics as I go 🤣

The open box of the Revell Route Master bus, showing a mountain of plastic and the PE additional parts

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 4d

PaddingtonSki pretty much done, not closed wheel wells yet as uncertain how it will be presented.
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 10d

TBH mate, it is what you are comfortable with that matters I'm on OoB with this last couple to refresh skills the 1/24 scale London Bus in the stash is a different matter, PE, scratch build bits etc planned. If I did a tank or other armour I would be OoB as I wouldn't have a clue where to start

Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 10d

Getting there, Soviet style, slowly and with many issues fragile parts, flaking paint but hey all good fun 😆
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 12d

Almost nothing aftermarket, mind, it is a slightly odd scale at 1/100,so it’s scratch build or OoB. I’m building it straight out of the box.

Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 12d

It’s a 1973 ish molding, very simple, no interior, good but sparse panel detail, the pics of the real thing doesn’t have a lot either, went together pretty well, only real filling at wing roots. Very comparable to more modern kits

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 17d

Paddingtonski has now had top coat, time to cure and then to make it look scabby and used
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB

A Tu95 bear model having just had a top coat of paint, sitting on a stand on a well used work board

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 24d

Awesome mate

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 25d

TU95 Bear, slightly odd nose, not many pics about of it configured like this, possibly a very early Bear B, before a more bulbous nose was added below the screen

Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 25d

and in the "then despised [politically]" West, they wouldn't believe it

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 25d

Not too bad from a distance, needs another coat, and then it’s detailing time
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 25d

Another weekend, another painting day, well impressed with the AK extreme metal, needs to dry for a few hours then paint the fuselage
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB